exposure

(ĭk-spō'zhər)
n.

1. The act or an instance of exposing, as:
   1. An act of subjecting or an instance of being subjected to an action or an influence: their first exposure to big city life.
   2. Appearance in public or in the mass media: an actor with much recent exposure in television.
   3. Revelation, especially of crime or guilt: exposure of graft in county government.
   4. The act of presenting a body part, especially the genitals, to view: indecent exposure.
2. The condition of being exposed, especially to severe weather or other forces of nature: was hospitalized for the effects of exposure.
3. A position in relation to climatic or weather conditions or points of the compass: Our house has a southern exposure.
4. 1. The act of exposing sensitized photographic film or plate.
   2. A photographic plate or a piece of film so exposed.
   3. The amount of radiant energy needed to expose a photographic film.

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(1) The degree to which information can be accessed using authorized or unauthorized methods. See penetration test and risk analysis.

(2) In a camera, the amount of light that reaches the film (analog) or CCD or CMOS sensor (digital). The exposure is achieved by the sum of the shutter speed, aperture (f-stop) and ISO setting. See shutter speed, f-stop and ISO speed.

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Advertising: presentation of a promotion piece or advertisement to an individual, such as a person viewing a television commercial or a reader opening a magazine to an advertisement page. The number of exposures achieved is an important measure of the effectiveness of an advertisement if it is measured in conjunction with the quality of the exposures achieved. For example, if a golf club advertisement is exposed to 1000 golfers, it has greater value than if it is exposed to 1 million nongolfers. See also media reach.

Photography: point in the photographic process during which lightsensitive film is exposed to a light source. See also f stops.

1. Total amount of credit committed to a single borrower, or to a single country if External Debt is considered.

2. In foreign exchange and futures market trading, the potential for suffering a gain or loss from fluctuations in market prices.

3. Bank's risk of suffering a loss when it credits a customer's account before funds are collected from the payer. This is called a Daylight Overdraft in wire transfer systems. See also Mismatch; Position.

noun

1. The condition of being laid open to something undesirable or injurious: liability, openness, susceptibility, susceptibleness, vulnerability, vulnerableness. See protection/exposure.
2. Something disclosed, especially something not previously known or realized: apocalypse, disclosure, exposé, revelation. Informal eye opener. See show/hide.

n

Definition: uncovering; putting in view or danger
Antonyms: concealment, covering, hiding

Of a wood shake: same as weather, 1.

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The intensity, duration, and variation in sun, wind, and temperature that characterize any particular site.

IN BRIEF: Position in relation to the sun, elements, or points of the compass.

That wall gets very hot because it has a southern exposure.

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i. The total quantity of light received per unit area on a sensitized plate or film. It may be expressed as the product of the light intensity and the exposure time.
ii. The act of exposing a light-sensitive material to a light source.
iii. One individual picture of a strip of photographs, usually called a frame.

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1. (in photography or radiography) the act or process of exposing sensitized photographic material, e.g. a film or plate, to light or to ionizing radiation.
2. (in photography) a a measure of the amount of light admitted into a photographic device expressed in terms of the lens aperture (f number) and time. b or light exposure symbol: H; a physical quantity equal to the product of the illuminance and the time, Δ t, for which the area is exposed. The SI unit is the lux second.
3. (in radiation dosimetry) a measure of the amount of X- or gamma radiation to which a subject or object is exposed, expressed in terms of the quantity of electric charge of the ions of one sign produced when all the electrons of both signs liberated in a volume of air of unit mass are completely stopped. The SI unit is C kg⁻¹, which has replaced the röntgen. Compare absorbed dose.

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1. the act of laying open, as surgical exposure.
2. the condition of being subjected to something, as to infectious agents or extremes of weather or radiation, which may have a harmful effect.
3. in radiology, a measure of the amount of ionizing radiation at the surface of the irradiated object, e.g. the body.

• e. button — of an x-ray machine. Usually on a 4 to 5 ft cable so that the operator can stand at a distance away from the primary beam. Combined with a timing device that is preset and controls the exposure time. The button is usually a two-stage mechanism, the first causing preheating of the cathode filament and/or rotating the anode, the second closing the electrical circuit and the creation of the x-ray beam.
• e. chart — a chart set up after a preliminary trial that sets out the best arrangement of exposure factors for a particular set of radiological equipment in order to obtain the best results.
• climatic e. — exposure to the weather without provision of shelter. See hypothermia, hyperthermia.
• e. error — under- or overexposure in radiography causing inferior contrast and detail.
• e. factors — the milliampere-seconds and kilovoltage for radiography of a particular animal. The factors are influenced by the speed of the film to be used, the anode to film distance, the grid to be used and the size of the subject. The exposure factors should be kept constant as far as possible.
• e. latitude — degree of over- or underexposure tolerable in a correctly developed film to still produce an acceptable radiographic image.
• provocative e. — in testing for possible hypersensitivity, the exposure to a suspected offensive agent to see if there is a recurrence of clinical signs.
• e. time — in radiography variable but fastest is best with animals because of the difficulty of holding the animal quite still or of delaying its breathing for any length of time. The milliamperage used should be as high as possible to keep the exposure time short.

n

Uncovering: subjection to viewing or radiation.

For a list of words related to exposure, see:

• Advertising - exposure: number of potential consumers reached through specific medium
• Insurance - exposure: maximum amount company may have to pay on claim
• Tools and Techniques - exposure: opening of shutter to allow light onto film, producing latent image; allowing light onto paper, producing print

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - udsættelse for (noget), bestråling, fremvisning, afsløring, eksponering, beliggenhed

Nederlands (Dutch)
blootstelling, openbaring, publiciteit, gevaar voor financieel verlies, geld dat gevaar loopt, onthulling, belichting, opname (film), ligging (betreffende weersomstandigheden etc.), te vondeling leggen, tentoonstelling (m.n. voor verkoop)

Français (French)
n. - découverte, mise à nu, exposition, étalage, révélation, dénonciation, exposition (d'un bâtiment), (Phot) temps de pose, pose, (Phot) vue

Deutsch (German)
n. - Aussetzen, Entlarvung, Bloßstellung, Belichtung, Aufnahme

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - έκθεση (σε κακουχίες, κίνδυνο κ.λπ.), αποκάλυψη (κν. ξεσκέπασμα, ξεμπρόστιασμα), χρόνος ή ταχύτητα διαφράγματος φωτογραφικής μηχανής, τράβηγμα

Italiano (Italian)
esposizione, rivelazione, denuncia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - exposição (f) (Fot.) (Téc.), revelação (f), orientação (f) em relação ao sol/vento

Русский (Russian)
разоблачение, экспозиция, подверженность, незащищенность, местоположение

Español (Spanish)
n. - fotografía, foto, revelación, denuncia, publicidad, exposición

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - utsättande, utsatt läge, frilagd yta

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
暴露, 揭露, 揭发

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 暴露, 揭露, 揭發

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 노출, 방향, 어린아이의 유기

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - さらすこと, 暴露, 露出, 露出時間, 陳列, 向き, 遺棄

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) هتك, إبداء للعيان, كشف‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חשיפה, גילוי, כיוון, צד, תמונה, הוקעה‬

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